CHRIST THE KING, Feast of. - With the encyclical Quas primas of 11 December 1925, Pius XI, at the conclusion of the Holy Year, instituted the liturgical feast of Christ the King, to be celebrated, with the rite of first class and with its own office and Mass, on the last Sunday of October, so that the faithful might recall the kingship of Christ with rites of atonement and proclamation. This feast thus sums up the thought not only of the Epiphany, the most ancient feast that exalts the royal dignity and the universal kingdom of Christ, but of the entire liturgical year, which continually expresses the truth and the reality of this kingship. To bear more effective witness to this recognition, it was established that on that day, in all churches, the consecration of the human race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, King of love and peace, should be renewed in solemn form.

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BIBL.: A. Deissmann, Licht vom Osten, Freiburg im Br. 1909, p. 282; W. Bousset, Kyrios Christos, Göttingen 1913, p. 203 ff.; Ph. Oppenheim, Das Königtum Christi in der Liturgie, Munich 1931; id., Christi persona et opus secundum textus liturgicus, Rome 1936; G. De Luca, Per dipingere un C. R., in Arte sacra, 3 (1933), pp. 25-33.

Filippo Oppenheim

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